Works to restore Qrendi’s parish church have reached the halfway stage, the parliamentary secretariat for EU funds said on Saturday. The €84,000 project is being 80% financed through EU funds dedicated to regional development and...

Panamanian prosecutors have charged former presidents Ricardo Martinelli and Juan Carlos Varela with laundering money from construction giant Odebrecht, after the company admitted paying bribes in the country. The two men, who collec...

A Gozitan local council has filed an appeal in an attempt to block mega-developer Joseph Portelli from building two large swimming pools outside Qala's development boundaries.  In a statement on Saturday, outspoken Qala Mayor Paul B...

Iconic football player Tony Nicholl is to get a statue at the Sliema Ferries, after the Planning Authority agreed to fund the work through its Development Planning Fund.  The monument is being jointly commissioned by the Sliema Wand...

Several historical religious street niches within Sliema are to be restored through money provided by the Planning Authority’s Development Planning Fund (DPF). The project, being carried out by the Rotary Club La Valette and the Sl...

A 64-year-old Sannat motorcyclist was seriously injured on Friday evening when he collided with a car in Victoria. The victim was riding a Kymco scooter on Triq Għajn Qatet at 6.30pm when he was involved in a crash with a 46-year-ol...

Berlin on Friday took control of the German operations of Russian oil firm Rosneft to secure energy supplies which have been disrupted after Moscow invaded Ukraine. Rosneft's German subsidiaries, which account for about 12 per cent o...

These are the leading stories being reported in this Saturday’s local newspapers. Times of Malta gives prominence to the conclusions of the police’s internal investigation into failings that led to a man under a European Arrrest ...

MUSIC The Planets The MPO, under the baton of resident conductor Sergey Smbatyan, is officially opening its 2022-23 concert season today with Gustav Holst’s masterpiece, The Planets, Op. 32. The epic orchestral suite was described ...

In a place where ageing is frowned upon and facelifts are common, even the sign that proclaims Hollywood to the world is joining in. The nine-letter landmark that beams down on Tinseltown turns 100 years old in 2023, and like the tim...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index failed to hold on to last week’s gain, as it shed 1%, to close the week at 7,634.056 points. A total of 17 equities were active, five of which registered gains, while another seven lost ground. A t...

Watching Andrew Azzopardi, some weeks ago, interviewing Adrian Delia on FM103 made me realise how ironic life is. The irony of watching radio in today’s world is rather baffling. Radio was just talk in the old days, wasn’t it? No...

The US justice department wants to have its say on Apple's antitrust tussle with Epic Games, which is due to be heard on appeal next month -- a year after a Californian court ruled largely in favour of the iPhone maker.  On Friday, ...

Last week, we made our way to Valletta to attend the Malta Pride March, which had the theme ‘Live Your Truth’. Pride is an integral part of our society and, every year, barring the COVID-19 pandemic, when we headed to Castille Sq...

Malta is going through a deep crisis. One which has been a long time coming. No, not energy, or immigration, or even corruption. This is a crisis of ideas. As parliament prepares to reconvene in just over two weeks’ time, it may be...

Joseph Muscat has denied acting as a lobbyist or consultant for Steward Health Care, pushing back at a transparency and accountability report by the business lobby. In a report published this week, the Chamber of Commerce used the fo...

Remembering Queen Elizabeth When the late Queen Elizabeth visited Malta in 1954, a year after her coronation, I was just six years old and in my second year of primary school. To commemorate the occasion, all schoolchildren were pres...

IN MEMORIAM BROWN. In loving memory of our dear mother MARY on the 16th anniversary of her demise. Her children Yvonne, Dorothy, Annabelle and Cliff and grandchildren. May she rest in peace. CACHIA – MARGUERITE. In loving memory of...

Eight Namibian cheetahs were on Friday airlifted to India, part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the big cats after they were driven to extinction there decades ago, officials and vets said. The wild cheetahs were moved by road...

Parliament must explain why Maltese authorities allowed a four-year-old asylum seeker to die of thirst at sea, Archbishop Charles Scicluna said on Friday. Loujin Ahmed Nasif, from Syria, was picked up by a cargo ship along with 60 ot...